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Acknowledgments

I
would like to thank the people without whose patience, wisdom, and kindness Jinx and the Urwald would not have seen the light of day.

For reading various drafts and stray bits and making suggestions, my eternal thanks to Deborah Schwabach, Aaron Schwabach, Jon Schwabach, Caitlin Blasdell, Joel Naftali, Lee Nichols, Nancy Horgan, and my late sister, Jennifer Schwabach.

I am grateful to everyone at HarperCollins and Katherine Tegen Books for brilliant editing, and for being so understanding and patient. Many thanks to Anne Hoppe (who helped me understand the monsters and, even more
importantly, the paths), Sarah Shumway, Katherine Tegen, Laurel Symonds, Katie Bignell, and everyone else there.

Many thanks to those whose help gave me time to finish the middle book,
Jinx's Magic
. . . James and Cynthia Vail, Gabrielle Vail, Lindsay Vail, Ty Giltinan, Qienyuan Zhou, Martha Scott, and Yingfei Zhou.

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About the Author

SAGE BLACKWOOD
lives at the edge of a large forest, with thousands of books and a very old dog, and enjoys carpentry, cooking, and walking in the woods of New York State. Visit Sage online at
www.sageblackwood.com
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Praise For
JINX

Kirkus Reviews
Best Book of the Year

School Library Journal
Best Book

Amazon Best Book of the Year

ALA
Booklist
Top Ten First Novels for Youth

ALA
Booklist
Editors' Choice: Books for Youth

The Horn Book
Recommended Fantasy Books


Jinx
is filled with real magic, not just the magic young Jinx learns, but the magic of a great book.”
—JOHN STEPHENS,
New York Times
bestselling author of
The Emerald Atlas

“Complex characters, compelling fun, a marvelously dastardly villain, all steeped in a tasty stew of mystery and magic. What more could a reader ask for?”
—BRUCE COVILLE

“A truly wonderful book.”
—SARAH PRINEAS, author of
The Magic Thief

“Blackwood fills her tale with drama and delightfully funny dialogue.”
—
Publishers Weekly
(starred review)

“Blackwood puts her central three characters through a string of suspenseful, scary situations before delivering a properly balanced closing set of resolutions, revelations and road signs to future episodes.”
—
Kirkus Reviews
(starred review)

Books by Sage Blackwood

Jinx

Jinx's Magic

Jinx's Fire

Credits

Cover art © 2015 by Iacopo Bruno

Cover design by Amy Ryan

Copyright

JINX'S FIRE
. Copyright © 2015 by Karen Schwabach. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins Publishers.

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Blackwood, Sage.

Jinx's fire / Sage Blackwood. —First Edition.

pages          cm

Sequel to: Jinx's magic.

Summary: “Jinx travels throughout the Urwald to unite its people and creatures against encroaching threats”— Provided by publisher.

ISBN 978-0-06-212996-3 (hardback)

EPub Edition © February 2015 ISBN 9780062129987

[1. Magic—Fiction. 2. Wizards—Fiction. 3. Orphans—Fiction. 4. Forests and forestry—Fiction. 5. Fantasy.] I. Title.

PZ7.B5345Jj   2015
                                                                                   2014022688
[Fic]—dc23
                                                                                               
CIP
                                                                                                   
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15 16 17 18 19    
CG
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RRDH
    10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1

FIRST EDITION

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